Aging baby boomers will soon have a new luxe living option to consider in Alexandria.
The owners of Tony's Auto Service are working with Bonaventure Realty Group to create Aspire at Old Town North, a multi-family apartment building for people age 62 and older at 1112 First St. in Alexandria's Old Town North neighborhood.
Currently the space is home to the owner's auto repair garage, which has been in business at the location since 1942.
The proposed 133-unit building, consisting of one and two-bedroom units, would be six stories high with a ground-floor restaurant. The building site is about an eight-minute wal
k to the Braddock Road Metro Station. The restaurant is expected to take up 4,550 square feet on the ground floor.
Utilities, cable TV and internet service will be included in the cost of each rental.
In a nod to the demographic, the building will offer an array of amenities for the 62 and older crowd, including an activities director, a driver, four full-time housekeepers, a fitness center, a hair/nail salon and spa, an art studio, a theater, a library, meeting and game rooms and an outdoor patio.
The restaurant will be open to the public. Residents will also be offered an optional monthly meal plan with multiple dining options.
The developer is Bonaventure Realty Group of Shirlington Village; the engineering company is Walter Phillips of Falls Church; the architect is J. Price Architecture of Liberty, Mo.; the land use attorney is Catherine Puskar of Walsh, Collucci, Lubely & Walsh of Arlington and landscape architects are Lorax Design Group of Overland Park, Kan.
Bonaventure specializes in developing senior housing with resort-style amenities and has similar projects in development in Richmond, Woodbridge, Norfolk and Chesapeake.
The overall idea is to develop properties that will have a “Ritz Carlton experience at a Hilton hotel price level,” Bonaventure CEO Dwight Dunton III told Senior Housing News.
The plan goes before the City's Planning Commission in February.
